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Webster 1913 Edition
Mysticism
Mys′ti-cism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
mysticisme
.] 1.
Obscurity of doctrine.
2.
(Eccl. Hist.)
The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
3.
(Philos.)
The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mysticism
MYS'TICISM
,Noun.
1.
The doctrine of the Mystics, who profess a pure, sublime and perfect devotion, wholly disinterested, and maintain that they hold immediate intercourse with the divine Spirit.Definition 2024
mysticism
mysticism
English
Noun
mysticism (countable and uncountable, plural mysticisms)
- The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
- A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
- A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
- Obscure thoughts and speculations.
Antonyms
Translations
beliefs and ideas of mystics
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doctrine of direct communication of divine truth
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transcendental union of soul with the divinity
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obscure thoughts and speculations
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References
- mysticism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913